Deadlines:
Disaster Management during Covid-19 pandemic: 19 June 2020
Resilience to climate change and disaster: 20 July 2020
The World Bank Group has announced two calls under “TechEmerge Resilience India Challenge”, in partnership with Government of India’s National Disaster Management Authority and CES. Through these calls, World Bank is looking for innovative technologies to meet urgent disaster management needs amidst COVID-19 in India.
Tracks
The Challenge has two tracks:
- Disaster Management during Covid-19 pandemic
- The need for adaptation and innovation is urgent to support India’s national, state and district Disaster Management Authorities (DMAs) in preparing for, and responding to disasters while also conforming to the precautionary measures required to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus.
- Resilience to climate change and disaster
- Although India has made remarkable progress in saving lives through proactive disaster preparedness and risk reduction, the country is also looking at building greater resilience of its communities and infrastructure to extreme events.
Areas
- Disaster Management during Covid-19 pandemic
- Integrated Health & Disaster Data Solutions
- Platforms for integrated needs and relief mapping and coordination;
- Integrated Supply chain and logistics platforms;
- Information systems for accurate relief targeting.
- Disaster preparedness measures for high-risk communities
- Increase access to telemedicine;
- Dynamic migrant mapping database systems;
- Mobile Emergency Operations Center for remote locations;
- Two-way info sharing – communities and first responders.
- Automated early warning and post-disaster impact assessment
- Systems/AI models to automate damage assessment;
- Remote monitoring of critical infrastructure and damage reconstruction;
- Automated multi-hazard early warning for remote locations;
- Multi-platform solutions for communication of COVID-19 and disaster warning.
- Integrated Health & Disaster Data Solutions
- Resilience to climate change and disaster
- Risk Information & Resilience Analytics;
- Remote data collection, monitoring;
- Dynamic and localized inputs and analytics;
- Integrated Resilience and Recovery Planning Platforms.
- Hyperlocal early warning systems
- Multi-hazard detection and forecasting systems;
- Incident reporting and networking for at-sea citizens;
- Hyperlocal warning and alert systems.
- Building Resilience and Mitigating Risks
- Resilient connectivity and logistics solutions;
- Structural health monitoring solutions;
- Low-cost solutions for lightening, coastal erosion detection and protection;
- Resilient livelihood solutions.
- Local Resilience & Response Capacity
- Training solutions for local risk-informed land use;
- Enhanced building and zoning code compliance solutions;
- Training on resilient housing construction.
- Risk Information & Resilience Analytics;
Criteria
- Disaster Management during Covid-19 pandemic
- Proven, well-tested product, with at least some commercial installations;
- Ready to deploy in India by early July 2020;
- If the firm is based outside India, a local partner is desirable;
- Demonstrated managerial capacity and scalability;
- Ability to immediately allocate time & resources to participate in project and deploy solutions in India;
- Meets the needs of Indian Disaster Management Authorities to deal with the imminent disasters in the current COVID-19 context.
- Resilience to climate change and disaster
- Prototype stage or proven product;
- If the firm is based outside India, a local partner is desirable;
- Ready to deploy in India by November 2020;
- Ability to allocate time and resources to participate in project and deploy solutions in India;
- Meets the needs of Indian Disaster Management Authorities to strengthen mitigation, management and analytics focused on building resilience to natural disasters and climate change.
Why Apply?
- Be invited to present solutions to participating Indian Disaster Management Authorities;
- Access to a pool of up to US $1 million in grant funding, supported by UK’s DFID, to pilot and deploy solutions in India (competitive selection);
- Guidance during pilot implementation and developing market entry/scaling strategies;
- Showcase solution at CES2021, world’s largest technology event, to be held in Las Vegas in January, 2021 (top 5 only);
- Potential for further investment to commercialize /scale solutions;
- Be part of “Tech Investments for Good,” a growing tech community that aims to respond to similar resilience challenges in other World Bank Group projects.
Selection Criteria
- Select: With the support of a network of expert jury members, they select high-performing technologies that can meet the needs of Disaster Management Authorities.
- Match:
- COVID-19 FAST TRACK: shortlisted tech companies with proven, ready to deploy solutions will be directly matched with interested Indian Disaster Management Authorities by mid-July.
- RESILIENCE TRACK: shortlisted tech companies will attend a pitch bootcamp, followed by attending a virtual event to meet Indian Disaster Management Authorities to pitch and present their solutions, and discuss working together in pilot projects.
- Pilot: Where there is interest from Disaster Management Authorities, tech companies will be invited to partner to pilot their solutions in the respective Indian States, with the chance for commercialization of successful pilots.
For more information, visit https://www.techemerge.org/resilience